meh

Civis Indus sum

[lynk @lynk0x]

Pov: You'd rather die moving in faith than rot sitting in fear."

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

“The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan”

[Neil Bahadur @NeilBahadur]

Best piece I've read on The Odyssey so far

[koreanoli @koreanoli]

The Odyssey desktop wallpapers 💥

[ᴀᴅɴᴀɴ ʙᴀQᴇʀ ‏𝕏 @iBo3DNA]

بفيلم #TheOdyssey في مشهد الحوريات انقالت اقوى جملة سمعتها بحياتي ومن يومها وانا افكر فيها، عميقة بشكل خيالي

أوديسيوس يربط نفسه بساري السفينة عشان يسمع أغنية حوريات البحر (السيرينات)، الأغنية اللي محد سمعها وطلع منها حي. واحد من البحارة سأله: "شلون كانت؟" فرد عليه:

"All the things you wanted to be, and then all the things you wished you never wished for. It was a delicious itch you want to scratch, but you find it under the skin, and you can't reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. It told you what you most want is what you most can't have, and what you most can't have is what you already had and lost."

"كل الأشياء اللي كنت تتمنى تصير … وبعدين كل الأشياء اللي تمنيت إنك ما تمنيتها أصلًا. كانت مثل حكة لذيذة تبي تحكها، بس تكتشف إنها تحت الجلد، وما تقدر توصل لها. ومع الوقت، هالحكة اللذيذة تصير عذاب. كانت تقول لك إن أكثر شي تبيه هو الشي اللي مستحيل تحصله، وإن أكثر شي مستحيل تحصله … هو الشي اللي كان عندك وخسرته."

بمعنى اخر هي ذاك الصوت اللي داخل راسك، اللي يقنعك إن الحياة اللي ما عشتها كانت أحسن من الحياة اللي عايشها الحين. الصوت اللي يهمس لك:
"لو إني اخترت قرار غير … لو إني ما تركت هالعلاقة… لو إني كملت…الخ" ويخليك تدريجيًا تغيب عن واقعك

وأعتقد هذا السبب اللي يخلي اللي يسمعها ما يعيش، مو لأنها تقتل الجسد، لكن لأنها تسرق حضورك

إذا طول عمرك تتحسر على حياة ما عشتها، مستحيل تعيش الحياة اللي فعلًا عندك بكل تفاصيلها

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

Let me tell you where this is going, and what the Nandan Nilekani committee for exams is broadly going to recommend and why:

1. Nandan Nilekani has a standard playbook: create "Digital Public Infrastructure", create a digital identity and try and build 100% national coverage for this. He has a single playbook for government that he and Ispirit have used in the past, and you can expect the same.

This Playbook has two key parts: identity and interchange infrastructure.

2. The identity: One part of this Playbook already exists... the ID, specifically the Apaar ID. They've done: Aadhaar (ID), UHID(Health), Apaar ID(Education), FasTag(Transportation).
Every crisis is an opportunity for our Tech godman. COVID was used create UHID without consent during vaccination.

The Apaar ID, which schools have forced students to get and link to Aadhaar, will be used here. The idea was always that these would be used for examinations.

3. The infrastructure is the second part: IT services companies benefit from the deployment of this infrastructure. Look at banking , GSTN and govt services and you can see who benefits and how. There's sometimes conflict of interest for some people but who cares.

4. The people: You need to look at the people in this committee and ecosystem that will be built around it. Some of them will be old affiliates... You'll see the former Aadhaar "volunteers" in different parts of it, and in the business that get built around it. Guess who backs ekstep and who is there. If you start a people map, you'll see a pattern. Earlier omidiyar network was involved and now I'm sure the Bill and Melinda gates foundation (some affiliates there) might be interested.

There's a pattern but if course, even lots of correlation may not be causation.

5. The committee will recommend the usage of Apaar ID and exam systems that use them. They might recommend an authority to manage them similar to UIDAI, or just coopt or infiltrate NTA. There are areas where Nilenani influence remains: NPCI, various RBI committes mapping its future. During COVID, in Cowin and the National Health Authority, affiliates were involved, though that didn't end well.

6. We need to be conscious that this is a part of the citizen mapping plan: the Aadhaar plan, which maps and tracks us from, in their words "cradle to grave". Multiple IDs linked to Aadhaar give it a sense of permanence and help with dedupe across databases. All this eventually is used to build, as the Aadhaar related state resident data hubs said “a 360 degree citizen profile”, and that's the surveillance infrastructure. All touchpoints of your file, mapped for surveillance. Fed into NATGRID.

7. I should clarify that this isn't a Narendra Modi plan. This precedes his ascension to power: the Congress was already setting some parts of it up. Guess who worked with them on it? The bureaucracy wants this and the politicians get coopted.

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Of course, I'm not being serious. This is all a joke. A worst case scenario that probably isn't true. Just a silly nightmare for civil liberties. This is a parody account and a parody comment.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

On this auspicious day of Ashada Ekadashi, I am very happy to announce the launch of my humble attempt to make history interesting.

https://t.co/SGfD2ebBpO

The idea is actually very very simple

You go to the site, select a year, and It will show you who ruled which part of India at that point in time.

[Mohit @MindOfBharat]

They keep viewing India through a Western lens, and it leads them to misread the country every time. They rarely try to understand India on its own terms. Perhaps they don't feel the need to, because India's anglicised broker class keeps reinforcing and validating the worldview they already hold.

[craig christ @PrivateGordon_]

“You’re confusing peace with quiet” is such a bar

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

When a mountain vanished in seconds.

Mount St. Helens, May 18, 1980

[S t e v e🗿🇵🇭 @StveLckleyAlt]

The more i rewatched Age Of Ultron the more i realized that the movie aged better than i expected

[. @VeyroCFC]

No player dead or alive is ever recreating this

[Ele 🌻 @elenadesaa1999]

Interestellar habla de una teoría que dice que las señales que ves, eres tú mismo desde otra realidad mostrándote el camino que debes seguir.
Qué mágico.

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

absolutely absurd how underrated he seems with a filmography this full of stone-cold classics. and this doesn’t even include ocean’s eleven!

[meh @cordial_brute]

Lmao 🤣

[Anshu @hindutva_anshu]

😭😭😭😭

[Niks @Pivot2Centre]

Damn! So many life lessons in this short video

[meh @cordial_brute]

Indians finally won the battle of Panipat.

[Niks @Pivot2Centre]

Winning Haryana, especially the way it was won, was a watershed moment in Indian politics.

That small state of India literally turned the politics upside down!

[India Infographics Guy @Deshpacito661]

An argument that I frequently make:

Pakistan is a successor state to the British Empire and the Mughal Empire.

Its fiscal architecture looks like that a pre modern colonial empire ruled by a rentier military elite that gets prime access to its fiscal resources, crowding out social spending and investment.

[Prof. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian @SubramanianKri]

India can return to 8–9% real GDP growth.
For that, structural reforms that lower the cost of doing business and the cost of financing are necessary. Specifically, judicial, bureaucratic and reforms to reform all the factors of production (land, labour, capital, energy) are key.
My interview with @PTI_News @ETBFSI @EconomicTimes @Business_Line_ @Bijaysinghacj @narendramodi @PMOIndia
https://t.co/qIvWAdEvk7
https://t.co/GPrHyub1tn
#IndiaGrowth #EconomicReforms #ViksitBharat

[Jacob Titus @jacob__titus]

Just found the best annual report